In Which I Get Excited About Math For Possibly The First Time In My Life

If you pitted the stupidest person at your work against a two year old, the moron who can’t do the simplest thing right would still probably come out ahead of the toddler every time.

So people without kids are pretty amused when we parents are totally blown away by our children doing simple things that even a dog could do, like identifying a ball or their own mother on cue.

But the thing is, when you’re looking at a tiny person and thinking “I MADE THAT,” then the fact that something you made can point to their own nose is incredibly exciting.

Even if you didn’t personally make the child (adoption, grandchild etc), the fact that this person couldn’t even hold up their own head a year or two ago makes the slightest achievement feel really momentous.

But to the rest of the world, we look like twits because we get so excited about our children accomplishing the most basic of skills, especially when they do so at developmentally normal ages.

I acknowledge this fact with apologies to all of the people out there who don’t get why I find this so exciting…

OWL CAN ADD UP ONE PLUS ONE!

I discovered it while going to pick up Perfect Husband at the train station last week.

Owl was chattering in the back seat with his usual repetitive observations, all of which he requires to be repeated back to him to prove that I understood the full scope of what he is trying to communicate:

“Big Liam’s birfday all done.”

“Yes, your friend’s birthday is finished.”

“Your birfday all done.”

“Yes, my birthday is all done.”

“Long time, my birfday.”

“Yes, your birthday is a long time from now, that’s very true.”

“You and me is two peoples.”

“That’s right, you and me together make two people.”

“Daddy get in the car… THREE peoples!”

THAT got my attention.

Owl can correctly identify groups of two or three, and has been able to count to fourteen or since he was a year and a half, but mentally adding an imaginary third person and then counting that person was decidedly new territory.

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7 thoughts on “In Which I Get Excited About Math For Possibly The First Time In My Life”

Oh how I remember such excitement, your blog made me laugh out loud with the fun and excitement of the event. Thank you for sharing such a lovely moment. My daughter’s are now 16 & 21, but I still remember such precious moments and it is lovely to share other people’s.